Hame



March 9,1926. 1,576,456

J. 1... PARRISH HAME Filed June 8, 1922 fVx/iress Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT" owner.

i JAMES L. PARRISI-I, F VALDOSTA, GEORGIA.

HAME.

Application filed June 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, James L. PARRISH, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Valdosta, in the county of Lowndes and State of Georgia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hames, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompany-- ing drawing.

'This invention relates to hames, and its object is to improve hames ofa common general type without materially increasing their cost.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a side or point view showing a hame embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view in the direction of the arrow of Fig. 1.

In ordinary hames of this type, the body is of wood, having its outermargin reinforced with a metal strip, secured by rivets, passing throughthe metal and wood, and at the proper point a staple passes through 25the wood parallel to the margin and riveted in place. Upon the loop ofthis staple which has a slight offset, is mounted a bracehook, and belowit on the offset portion, a ring. The rivet and staple greatly weaken'30 the/ hame in this region where most of the strain is applied, andfor this reason hames frequently break at this point, and practicallynever break elsewhere. This invention makes this weak point far strongerthan any other portion.

In the construction shown, 10 represents the wood portion of a hame and11 a steel strip covering its outer margin, which is practicallyperpendicular to the plane of the 40 inner or back face. The wood member10 is largest in the region where the main strain is to act, but has inthis region no perforations whatever, and the strip 11 has here itsmaximum thickness. The strip is secured to the upper and lower portionsof the wood member in the usual way. Over the upper slightly taperingportion of the hame is slipped a heavy metal sleeve 12, provided at ashort distance in front of 1922. Serial No. 566,820.

its rear face with integral spaced lugs 13, through which passes a bolt14, and upon this bolt between the lugs is loosely mounted a trace hook15, which in use may swing back against the fiat edges of the sleeve.The lower lug 13 has its upper side 13 rounded to receive the primarilypendant ring 16, lying between the bolt and sleeve, and allowing it toswing, the lug surface which it approximately fits. The strip in theregion where the sleeve is to lie is slightly increased in thickness inpassing downward, and its edges are preferably very slightly undercut at11 to receive the corresponding part of the sleeve, and both the woodand strip are fitted to the interior slightly tapered sleeve when thelatter is a little above its desired position. The sleeve is then highlyheated, slipped over the hame, and quickly driven down to properposition and at once cooled before it can materially burn the Wood. Incooling, it of course, shrinks, and strongly and permanently grips thehame. In shrinkwhile resting on I ing, itgrips the undercut metal stripindependently of shrinking and swelling of the wood.

Obviously this heavy sleeve, which extends to some distance above andbelow the trace hook, makes the hame at this point many times strongerthan at any other point or than an ordinary hame. It is also to be notedthat the drilling and riveting in the region of great strain is avoided.Should it break at any other point, the sleeve may be used again.

What I claim is:

1. A hame provided with a heavy slightly tapered metal strip on itsouter margin, a metal sleeve encircling the hame adapted to be forcedwhile hot over said hame and on cooling to grip edgewise said metalstrip, and trace attaching devices carried by said said metal stripwhether or not the wood portion shrinks, and trace and strap attachingdevices carried by said sleeve.

8. In a hame, the combination with a wood. body having on its outermargin a slightly tapered heavy metal strip provided with a portion overwhich a sleeve may be passed merging into a second slightly largeridentically similar portion integral with the first, of a metal sleeveadapted to 10 slip over the first portion and to be forced,

when heated, over the second portion and a on cooling to grip the woodand also to grip edgewise the metal strip whether or not the woodshrinks.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

JAMES L. PARRISH.

